Governance failure and location of schools around large expanses of unprotected forest zones make school children easy targets for bandits in Nigeria’s north-west.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Girl child
Displaying all articles
Free secondary educational policy in Ghana is worthwhile but struggles to keep up with quality.
Almost one in three teen mothers do not return to school. Cash incentives help get them back, but affordable day-care is essential too.
When women have opportunities, a country’s economic productivity and development is enhanced.
The average Nigerian woman or child faces a host of hindrances in accessing health services.
The Igbos, like most other indigenous groups, believe in maintaining a legacy of not just their language, but other values, including trans-generational business legacies.
Social norms, practices and attitudes in African societies hinder the lives, survival and development of girls.
Understanding the drivers of early childbearing in specific contexts is important for effective policy making.
An estimated 2000 million women have undergone female genital mutilation and millions more are at risk. The practice is carried out mainly for cultural and economic reasons.
Tanzania’s government must focus on the drivers of teenage pregnancy, which are entirely overlooked in current punitive policies, instead of expelling and arresting schoolgirls.
Nigeria must reduce its population growth to increase the quality of life for people in the country. A better knowledge of contraceptives can help achieve this.
Top contributors
-
Lecturer, Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
-
Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
-
Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
-
Associate professor, University of Ibadan
-
Researcher, ODI
-
Lecturer, Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University
-
Professor of International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth
-
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Lagos
-
Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
-
Doctoral Researcher: Faculty of Law, North-West University
-
Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, University of Kigali
-
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Oxford
-
Researcher - Global Health, University of Oxford
